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An interesting article about the US army's fight against malaria in the pacific theater during WW II: https://armyhistory.org/the-other-foe-the-u-s-armys-fight-ag... TL;DR: By spra…

An interesting discussion of that here: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/513781/moores-law-and-the...

Nice try, IBM!

I wonder if tin foil can block this :p

I love this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz2SeEzxMuE

In Newport, Washington, electricity is so inexpensive ($0.05/kWh) that almost everyone uses electric baseboard heat - and it gets very cold (10 degrees Fahrenheit) in the winter. T…

A couple of suggestions for improvements: 1) Use quaternions instead of Euler angles for rotation 2) Show latitude and longitude grid so it's easier to identify equator and polar r…

For wartime use. Military convoys might need to go off-road or around road damage.

They could do brake and other inspections there too.

RTFA

"Despite a government plan to cut pesticide use in half by 2020, sales in France have climbed steadily, reaching more than 75,000 tonnes of active ingredient in 2014, according to …

Interesting that three of the top five destination states (Texas, Nevada and Washington) have no state income tax.

http://gafw.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/UGA4799073-clear-...

That was interesting, but I think their conclusion about the linux kernel being comparatively top-heavy with relatively few "work horses" was probably greatly influenced by the fac…

Interesting subject matter and story, but terrible writing. I'm having difficulty believing that it was really written by an associate professor of English at the University of Ill…

Tezos - Participate in the governance of your cryptocurrency. Read the source code of any smart-contract on the blockchain. As I understand it, the source code of tezos itself is s…

LOL, that's an interesting new metric for financial transactions - I like it! I sure hope Vitalik et. al. can pull off Casper as advertised.

No. XT and Classic were code forks, not blockchain forks. If certain runtime conditions had been met, they would have become blockchain forks, but those conditions were never met.

You're (understandably) confusing a code fork with a chain fork: Code fork: taking the source code from one project, modifying it, then offering the result as a new project. This i…

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